Just when did Stephen Paddock lose his soul ? At any age - whatever your social or economic status - it does help to believe life has some transcendent meaning . Not believing that life has MEANING we go in the direction of mad Roman emperor Caligula ( read Albert Camus' perspective on the Absurd ).
Dostoevsky wrote : " If God did not exist , then everything is permitted ".
For ALL levels of society life in capitalist America is becoming meaningless. I note the title of two movies at the local Showcase Cinemas : " American Assassin " and " Hitman's Body Guard ".
Meaningless violence and brainless consumerism , obnoxious hateful TV and radio commercials with the latest Trump Tweet : NORTH KOREA WILL BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED !
The stock market is going up and up while humanity goes down and down - into the existential Abyss.
" The play [ Caligula ] begins with the young emperor's decision to force the senators of Rome to live under a regime as cruel, moronic, meaningless and random as he believes life itself to be. "
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